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Resilience articles

Below are the best articles we could find on Resilience.

Resilience is not merely endurance: it is the long-term ability to adjust to and healthily “bounce back” to our original state after periods of stress. Resilience is not just a matter of “shrugging off” or ignoring stress; it requires strategies both for managing stress and for periods of rest and recovery to recharge after the stressor is removed. And while some are more innately in tune to what most effectively works for them, our capacities for resilience can be built over time with observation, experience, and support.

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Betrayed by My Body, Not by Life

In the end, I fall back on one statement that I repeat to myself pretty often. “We are not given the burdens we deserve, we are given the burdens we can bear.”

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Why Hope Matters

Hoping we can make things better is the secret to doing so.

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The Activism Cure

People who give to others give healthier, happier lives to themselves, argues Meredith Maran.

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What Is Forgiveness?

Forgiveness expert Fred Luskin explains what it takes to give up a grudge.

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Self Care for Activists

We become more effective agents of change when we are nurturing our own happiness and personal growth.

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The Benefits of Failure

Failure can increase resilience and spur creativity, among other advantages.

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Interview: Daniel Gilbert

What will make you happy? A social scientist explains why it’s so hard to predict

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This Is How We Juneteenth

Amid protests against police brutality and structural racism toward black Americans, some lean into the joy of tradition as resistance.

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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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10 Questions with Brené Brown

Belinda Luscombe interviews Brené Brown

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